Author - D H Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. From 1908 he worked as a teacher in Croydon. It was there that he began to write, his first novel being published in 1910. In 1912 he eloped to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the wife of his former tutor, Professor Ernest Weekley. At the outbreak of World War One the two returned to the UK and took up residence in Cornwall. It was here that Lawrence wrote Women in Love.

Lawrence was a prolific writer, not only of novels but also of poetry, short stories, plays and essays. He was also a painter. He drew a lot of his inspiration from his childhood in Nottinghamshire. Sadly, he suffered with his health for most of his life. In the 1920s it declined and Lawrence spent most of his final years abroad, rarely visiting the UK. He died in 1930 at the age of 44. He is probably best remembered for his controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Test your knowledge of the life and works of D H Lawrence in this fun yet testing quiz!

1.

Lawrence was born in 1885 in which mining town in Nottinghamshire?

Eastgate

Eastwood

Westgate

Westwood

His former home in Victoria Street has been converted into a museum

2.

In Lady Chatterley's Lover, what is Lady Chatterley's first name?

Carol

Constance

Cora

Cynthia

The inspiration for Lady Chatterley was said to be Lady Ottoline Morrell, a friend of Lawrence's who lived at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire

3.

Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?

Egypt

India

Mexico

Peru

The book was to have been called Quetzalcoatl, after the Aztec god, but Lawrence's publisher insisted on The Plumed Serpent

4.

In 1901 Lawrence left school to work as a junior clerk in a factory making what?

Bicycles

Pit props

Railway sleepers

Surgical appliances

He worked at Haywards, manufacturers of surgical appliances, before he became a teacher

5.

What is the appropriate title of Lawrence's 1923 novel, a semi-biographical account of a visit to Australia?

Boomerang

Bush

Kangaroo

Koala

Kangaroo is the story of an English writer and his German wife's visit to Australia in the early 1920s. Coincidentally, Lawrence and his German wife Frieda visited Australia in 1922

6.

Which 1913 novel charts the life of the aspiring artist Paul Morel?

Aaron's Rod

The Boy in the Bush

Sons and Lovers

The Trespasser

The most biographical of Lawrence's works, based on his childhood and youth in Eastwood

7.

In 1907 Lawrence won a short story competition in which local newspaper?

Nottingham Echo

Nottingham Guardian

Nottingham Herald

Nottingham Post

This was the first time any of Lawrence's work was published

8.

Lawrence was diagnosed in 1925 with which disease, from which he died five years later?

Cancer

Cholera

Tuberculosis

Typhoid

He died in Vence, France at the age of 44

9.

In the 1969 film version of Women in Love, who wrestles naked with Oliver Reed?

Alan Bates

Tom Courtenay

Richard Harris

Patrick McGoohan

The film was directed by Ken Russell and also starred Glenda Jackson

10.

The Kiowa Ranch, where Lawrence once lived, has now been renamed the D H Lawrence Ranch. In which US state is it situated?